COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - Police in Council Bluffs were hunting for a man who robbed a local bank using an ax as his weapon. Police say a white man wearing a long tan coat over a shorter jacket entered the Frontier Bank on 23rd Ave. about 2 p.m. Monday and talked briefly with a teller. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Department of Public Health is reporting two more swine flu-related deaths in the state. The department reported Monday the deaths of 2 adults - one in Benton County and another in Woodbury County. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A state agency has released a 121-page report outlining dozens of tax credits as part of a review of such programs that will continue this week with meetings in Cedar Rapids and Urbandale. Full Story »
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa City woman received a 6-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to theft of Social Security Income benefits. Full Story »
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Terra Industries Inc. says its board rejected CF Industries Holdings Inc.'s latest sweetened hostile buyout bid, saying it "continues to substantially undervalue Terra." Full Story »
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - 1 of 2 brothers arrested in connection with two stabbings during a Labor Day street brawl in Dubuque has been sentenced to seven years prison. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Fire Marshal Jim Kenkel has announced plans to retire next year after serving in the post for more than seven years. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Des Moines police say they have made no arrests in the robbery of a convenience store. Store clerk Jeremy Schmitz was organizing shelves at a Git-N-Go Convenience Store late Sunday when a man walked in, pulled a gun on him and demanded cash. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The director of the Iowa Department of Human Services is recommending closing the mental health institution in Mount Pleasant and moving all services to an Independence facility. Full Story »
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Police have charged a Sioux City man with vehicular homicide in a hit & run accident that killed another man over the weekend. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The director of the Iowa Department of Human Services plans to make his recommendation on closing 1 of the state's four mental health institutions. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa's largest cable provider says e-mail is back. Mediacom Communications Corp. says most of the problems were fixed Sunday, after some customers were without e-mail for three days. Full Story »
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - University of Iowa officials continue to search for what's causing faculty, staff and students in the Chemistry Building to feel ill. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Freezing drizzle and falling temperatures are causing slick roads and sidewalks across Iowa as the state continues to dig out from last week's blizzard. Full Story »
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - An autopsy is scheduled for a 54-year-old man who died following a police-involved shooting over the weekend. Julian Cyriel Dekeuninck died Saturday outside the Steeplegate Inn in Davenport. Full Story »
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) - Police have made an arrest in the death of a Nebraska man who was hit by a car as he crossed a Sioux City street. Twenty-4-year-old Ryan Deming of Sioux City was being held Sunday at a local jail. Full Story »
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) - Authorities in Davenport have identified a 54-year-old man who died following a police-involved shooting. Julian Cyriel Dekeuninck died Saturday outside the Steeplegate Inn in Davenport. Full Story »
VINTON, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa man who shot himself while deer hunting is recovering from a leg injury at a Des Moines hospital. Officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources say Ryan Daniel Higdon was re-holstering a handgun Saturday while hunting in Marion County. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Questions about how Iowa managed its tax credit program for filmmakers has drawn plenty of attention, but the cost of similar efforts also have increased, often with limited oversight. Full Story »
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Confidential contracts detailing business practices of a suburban St. Louis-based agricultural giant business practices reveal how Monsanto Co. is protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops. Full Story »
MONONA, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say two people from Wisconsin are dead and three other people are injured after a car accident in Iowa's Allamakee County. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A central Iowa plant could soon begin producing jet fuel from poultry fat. Bolingbrook, Ill.-based Elevance Renewable Sciences plans to build a $15 million plant in Newton, adding onto an existing biodiesel operation. Full Story »
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) - A Council Bluffs man has been charged with murder in the early morning stabbing death of another man. Police say they charged 20-year-old Terrance Jerrell Burnett with first degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Dustin Jones. Full Story »
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A state audit alleges that the Iowa Workforce Development failed to track spending for a computer system that handled unemployment insurance taxes. Full Story »
VINTON, Iowa (AP) - A 34-year-old Iowa man shot himself in the leg while deer hunting in Marion County. Iowa Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins says Daniel Higdon was re-holstering a handgun Saturday when the pistol discharged and hit him in the lower leg. Full Story »
A 6-day-old sheep relaxes with its mother at a zoo in Tokyo, Dec. 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
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